Best Designed App

Best Use of Mashape APIs

Best Use of AI

Presented by Ivey Entrepreneurship: $500 for the team with the app that best uses Artificial Intelligence

Best Mobile App

Presented by Yahoo: one iPhone 6 for the team, and $100 in Flickr Photobook Credits for each team member

Best Hardware Prize

Presented by Spark: Maker Kit + Spark notebooks for each member of the team

Best Thalmic Hack

Presented by Thalmic: one Myo armband for each member of the team

Best Muse Hack

Presented by Muse: one Muse EEG headband for each team member

Best Pebble Hack

Presented by Pebble: one original Pebble watch for each team member

Best Social Impact Hack

Presented by Magnet Forensics: one Raspberry Pi Kit for each team member

Best Use of AWS

Presented by MLH: team that best uses Amazon Web Services will receive one external hard drive for each member of the team.

Reinvent the Reading Experience
(2)

Presented by Kobo: Kobo eReader for each member of the team

Most Fun Project

Presented by Info-Tech: One Leap Motion for each member of the team.

The hackathon for everyone.

Hack Western is an all-inclusive 36-hour event where students of all backgrounds from across Canada and the U.S. gather at Western University to create and innovate. The event is entirely student run in partnership with amazing sponsors and speakers. Hack Western provides a welcoming atmosphere for students to create anything from a mobile app, fancy hardware application, to the next big thing!